Admit/discharge logs, 1896-1955 (bulk 1940-1955)

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Admit/discharge logs, 1896-1955 (bulk 1940-1955)

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Series consists of preprinted standard daily diaries by year, used as logs for the State Farm at Bridgewater, Mass., including the State Hospital, giving each day's admissions, discharges, deaths, and desertions, as well as total number of each category, by gender.

1.25 cubic ft. (1 record center carton)

Commonwealth of Massachusetts State Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 7582587

Commonwealth of Massachusetts State Archives

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Massachusetts. State Asylum for Insane Criminals (Bridgewater, Mass.)

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Massachusetts. State Farm (Bridgewater, Mass.)

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Bridgewater, Mass., was the site successively of a State Almshouse (1854-1872) for so-called willing and needlessly dependent paupers, and the State Workhouse (1866-1887), for paupers convicted of misdemeanors as well as paupers generally (from 1872), and incorrigible juveniles (1869-1948). The State Workhouse was renamed the State Farm (1887-1955), which also included a State Farm Hospital for the medical needs of all inmates, as well as locals and poor admitted solely for medical treatment. Th...

Bridgewater State Hospital (Mass.)

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The State Asylum for Insane Criminals was established in Massachusetts in 1895 at the State Workhouse in Bridgewater. Under the workhouse's successor, the State Farm (from 1887), the asylum was renamed Bridgewater State Hospital in 1909. In 1919 the State Farm, including the State Hospital, was transferred from the State Board of Charity to the Massachusetts Bureau of Prisons (later Dept. of Correction), although as of 1923 the Dept. of Mental Diseases (later Dept. of Mental Health) retained the...